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BT Casey at the Bat
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Literature
7th Grade
03/22/2011

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Pallor
Definition

noun

extreme paleness

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Dell
Definition

noun

a valley

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Writhing
Definition
Twisting as in pain or embarrassment
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Visage
Definition

noun

face

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Tumult
Definition

noun

a disorderly disturbance

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Poet
Definition
one who writes a poem
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Speaker
Definition
narrator of a poem
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Stanza
Definition
Group of lines in a poem
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Meter
Definition
a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem to create rhythm
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Foot
Definition
one unit of meter
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Alliteration
Definition

Repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of a series of words:

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

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Onomatopoeia
Definition
words that imitate the sound that they are naming
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End Rhyme
Definition
when a word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
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Internal Rhyme
Definition
when a word inside a line rhymes with another word in the same line
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